Citations for environmental and energy law professors 2018

Brian Leiter at Chicago is again doing one of his occasional series identifying the top cited legal scholars in a range of substantive areas.  One of the lists he did covered public law scholars including environmental law– however, his list includes a number of top administrative law scholars who do not focus on environmental and energy law.  As I did the last time Leiter posted these totals, I thought it might be helpful to our readers to have a list that is focused on scholars who work substantially or primarily on environmental and energy law.  Unlike Leiter, I’ve just lumped everyone together without breaking out a separate category for those work only partially in the field—that’s because almost all environmental and energy law scholars could be characterized as working in other areas of law, given the interdisciplinary nature of the work.  So of course Cass Sunstein is number one. All the caveats that Leiter has indicated about the utility of looking at cite counts apply here.  In particular, I also want to emphasize that citations are only a partial and imperfect measure of scholarship, which in turn is only a partial measure of what environmental and energy law professors do.  My numbers differ slightly from Leiter’s at times because for most of these scholars, I did my own searches.   I used the same basic methodology as Leiter (including using the new Westlaw TE search function, which eliminates references in star acknowledgment footnotes), and these are citations from 2013-2017, inclusive.  If any readers identify any errors or omissions, please let me know in the comments or by email.

 

Rank Faculty First Name Faculty Last Name School Cite count 1 Cass Sunstein Harvard 5140 2 Dan Farber Berkeley 1470 3 Jody Freeman Harvard 820 4 Richard Pierce GW 810 5 Richard Stewart NYU 790 6 Richard Revesz NYU 765 7 Jonathan Adler Case Western 665 8 Carol Rose Arizona 655 9 JB Ruhl Vanderbilt 650 10 Richard Lazarus Harvard 570 11 Tom McGarity Texas 515 12 Jim Rossi Vanderbilt 485 13 Vicki Been NYU 470 14 Robin Kundis Craig Utah 460 15 Sidney Shapiro Wake Forest 455 16 Rob Glicksman GWU 450 17 Cary Coglianese Penn 440 18 Doug Kysar Yale 410 19 Jim Salzman UCLA 405 20 David Spence Texas 400 21 Michael Gerrard Columbia 375 22 Wendy Wagner Texas 370 23 Dan Tarlock Chicago-Kent 360 23 Lisa Heinzerling Georgetown 360 25 Hannah Wiseman Florida State 340 26 Robert Percival Maryland 330 27 Michael Blumm Lewis and Clark 325 27 Alex Klass Minnesota 325 29 Daniel Bodansky Arizona State 320 29 Mike Livermore Virginia 320